override SemanticException [Error 10001]

Question

I want to alter 1000s table in hive database, but some of their tables exits some doesn\'t. As I execute that .sql file, as soon as it found table not present, it exits from hiv

Answer 1

Try this configuration parameter:

set hive.cli.errors.ignore=true;

After setting it to 'true', all commands in the script are executed, no matter how many failed.

See here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1847